Six members of the Interamerican Institute for Democracy take the keyboard to offer us the essays that make up this Democracy Paper No. 13: Uniformity against diversity in the course of our civilization; Human Rights in Cuba, the country with the longest dictatorship throughout the planet; the Venezuela confrontation between a Castroist dictatorship and the freedom, sovereignty and democracy; factors that have led to an imminent collapse of Venezuela; the crossroads in Latin America between the principle of national sovereignty and the defense of democracy; and the last essay of this presentation: a suscint political annalysis of the main regions and countries of the world.